Sat. 10AM Oakland: Meet, Support Gulf Coast Families

HONORING GULF COAST FAMILIES:
MOURNING LIVES LOST AND CELEBRATING THE SPIRIT OF RESILIENCE

Saturday, September 10th, 10 am – 12:30 pm
at the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, OAKLAND
2501 Harrison Street, Oakland

Hear firsthand accounts from displaced people now in our communities.

Join artists, musicians, activists and community members to grieve with our
Gulf Coast brothers and sisters, to honor their strength and to celebrate a
resurgence of resistance to U.S. racist policies. There will be music and
speakers offering us a time to feel and a place to plan.

FEATURING: New Orleans native poets Mac Dennis, Gabrilla Ballard (tbc),
Mike Molina of ROOTS/Community Works, also singer Renee Wilson, Van Jones
of Ella Baker Center and others to be announced.

Sponsored by the First Congregational Church and Ella Baker Center for
Human Rights

For More Information: joshua [at] ellabakercenter.org or 510-428-3939 x229

Requested donation of $10 for relief efforts at the door -- no one turned
away for lack of funds.

(We encourage those planning to go to Power to the Peaceful Concert to
carpool to San Francisco after the gathering in Oakland.)

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